Financial Aid Deadline Extractor

Store Positioning

Store title: Financial Aid Deadline Extractor

Short description: Extract public financial aid, FAFSA, scholarship, priority filing, and institutional aid deadlines from college financial aid pages into normalized deadline rows.

SEO title: Financial Aid Deadline Extractor — official public data extraction and monitoring

SEO description: Extract public financial aid, FAFSA, scholarship, priority filing, and institutional aid deadlines from college financial aid pages into normalized deadline rows. Use it to normalize official public data into clean Apify datasets with source-specific fields and report artifacts.

Categories: SEO_TOOLS, DEVELOPER_TOOLS, NEWS

Keywords: financial, aid, deadline, extractor, public data, official/public-data actor

Pay-Per-Event Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

• Tier: D1 — Official/public-data actor
• Primary event: record-fetched at $0.00908 base
• Default max charge: $15.00
• Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

• actor-start: base $0.02000, GOLD $0.01760. Financial Aid Deadline Extractor: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• record-fetched: base $0.00908, GOLD $0.00799. Financial Aid Deadline Extractor: charged when record fetched is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• event-detected: base $0.01300, GOLD $0.01140. Financial Aid Deadline Extractor: charged when event detected is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• report-generated: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04400. Financial Aid Deadline Extractor: charged when report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

The actor accepts actor-start before work, accepts the primary event before each dataset row, and accepts the configured report event before writing report files. If maxChargeUsd or the live PPE limit blocks a charge, the corresponding row or report is not written.

Public Task Concepts

• Extract a FAFSA priority deadline
• Build a scholarship deadline calendar
• Normalize transfer institutional aid deadlines
• Flag an ambiguous aid deadline
• Extract a CSS Profile deadline

Inputs

• startUrls
• institutionNames
• allowedDomains
• targetAcademicYear
• deadlineTypes
• applicantTypes
• maxPages
• maxDepth
• includeScholarshipDeadlines
• includeEvidence
• timezone
• timeoutMs

The exact default fetches Vanderbilt University's public financial-aid deadline calendar, verified at 2026-07-12T06:15:00Z.

Outputs

• institutionName
• sourceUrl
• deadlineType
• deadlineDate
• deadlineText
• academicYear
• priorityOrFinal
• applicantType
• formName
• appliesTo
• timezone
• confidence
• evidenceText
• warning

Run locally with npm test and npm run build.